Archive for the ‘Bigas Luna- Juan José’ Category

Diana, a young actress who is sick of living a miserable life with no opportunity, decides to move to Miami to try her luck in the Latino world, along with her friend María, a wild showgirl. Though life there is not easy, she eventually gets her much-desired break. Following the wake of a dream, she travels to Hollywood, yet only to discover the dark side of success.

Juani has got problems at home and argues with her boyfriend. Nobody can put up with her. They have been together since they were fifteen but his jealousy and indecisiveness are unbearable. Juani explodes, leaves him and decides to do everything she hasn’t done while she’s been wasting her time with him.

Fed-up with conforming and with so much stupidity all she wants is to get on and succeed in life. She wants to become an actress and there should be no doubt that she’ll get what she’s after. Let’s make this very clear, she’s Juani and Juani is the top dog.

Horty, a young worker, who works in a smelting, wins the first prize in a competitionof force that orgainises his company, a return to go to Southampton to see the Titanic leave on its maiden voyage to New York.

During the night, in his room at the Grand Hotel, someone knocks on his door. A beautiful girl asks him for accomodation. She is to be a waitress on the Titanic, she ahs to board the ship the next day but all the hotels are full. The next morning she has disappeared. Horty sees her on the Titanic, he tries to approach but the ship weighs anchor…

Tete is a nine year old boy who is consumed with jealousy at his baby brother’s monopoly of his mum’s nipples. After asking the moon for a breast of his own, his prayers are answered with the arrival of Estrellita (Mathilda May), a beautiful French dancer.

But the course of true love doesn’t run smooth and Tete finds stiff competition for her affection. She is deeply in love with her cabaret partner, Maurice, the flatulent motorbike rider, and is also being pursued by Miguel, the hunky flamenco-singing teenager.

Ruthless stud Benito González (Javier Bardem-Jamón Jamón) wants wealth, women and to erect a skyscraper in his own honour. In order to achieve this he marries the sophisticated daughter of a rich banker, Marta (María de Medeiros – Pulp Fiction, J’Embrasse Pas), but keeps mistress Claudia (Maribel Verdú – Belle Epoque) on the side. When Marta and Claudia realise they are both victims of Benito’s greed, things for Benito begin to crumble. The erection of his skyscraper mirrors his sexual problems, both facing demolition. Has Benito’s luck finally abandoned him?

Cue Raul (Spanish heartthrob Javier Bardem) the village hunk who works in a ham factory, enjoys bullfighting in the nude and nicely fills out his Y-fronts, who Conchita hires to win the heart (and body) of Silvia, … if Conchita doesn’t eat him up first that is.

But things don’t turn our exactly as planned and what ensues is; a somewhat chaotic and frantic series of couplings, testosterone overload, breasts that taste of ham, a piglet named Pablito and a duel to the death with a side of a ham.

Submerged in the fears of a childhood devoid of affection, fifteen year old Lulu succumbs to the attraction of a young friend of the family Pablo. One night he takes her to a rock concert and after the show, in the back of his car, introduces Lulu to her first sexual experience.

Years later when Pablo returs from teaching in the US the tow meet again and get married. He creates for her a world apart, a private universe in which time has no meaning.

But Lulu tires of living in an unreal world and leaves home. She begins to hang out in shady bars where she plunges helplessly but feverishly into the hell of dangerous, apparently forbidden desires.